As promised, a drawing of what I actually saw in Aruba. My favorite sight of all was my boy playing in the sand. He used bits of coral for knights, a shell for a princess, and a dried up coconut for a dragon in the most rudimentary, lovely sand castle those two little hands could […]
View post →Is that all? Is that all you think you’ll see in Aruba? Yes. In fact, that’s all I need to see. The horizon line. Anything more will be icing on a most lovely cake of sweet sweet relaxation!! –That’s the conversation I had with myself after I made this simple simple drawing before leaving for […]
View post →A great poem is City Trees by Edna St Vincent Millay. Love how she talks about the importance of context. I read it often and recently felt like making a few drawings. This is the first. ~Despina
View post →Every time I work in the garden I think of my farmer grandfather in Crete, may he rest in peace. This is a drawing of the small tomato plant I’m growing in his memory this year. The seed is from Greece. –Despina
View post →I picked a random page from my notebook of recent days. For fun. And this is the lucky thumbnail drawing. It’s not a snowman is all I will say. ~Despina
View post →I think our son is slightly “double-jointed”, and when he plays on the keyboard I love to watch his curly fingers fluttering away, tickling those ivories and my fancy too! ~Despina
View post →I came across this sketch I made as an option for an editorial commission. The illustration that was chosen was a bit different. ~Despina
View post →Line drawing of rhododendron branches. –Despina
View post →A thumbnail is a thought of what could be. ~Despina
View post →Here’s a drawing/collage/painting inspired by a mystery. Much of earthworm behavior is understood by scientists except for how and why they rise to the surface when it rains. Also, as I dig and plant in my garden I often wonder about how I could translate soil into a 2-Dimensional visual… here I gave it the […]
View post →Back in the garden knee-deep in soil when out popped a couple of worms. My son loves them and started to make stories as he played with them. So here begins my next project. This preliminary drawing is about a boy worm and his parents. Maybe we’ll call it “Parents just don’t understand” ~Despina
View post →While the paint was still wet, I scratch-drew the woman’s face with the back of my brush. ~Despina
View post →Of course by the time I went to get a pen and paper the furry little rascal went from slowly moving about and peacefully noshing on our cilantro (time to get a garden fence!) to hopping on back to where it came from. I managed to get in two pages of quick drawings though. And […]
View post →Unfortunately, fans of the Chicago Cubs can chant til their voices go, and they still wont get a championship win from their beloved team. Its a curse that has outlived Boston’s curse of the bambino. These fans seemed so jaded that even when they clapped at a home run, they couldnt muster up a smile. They […]
View post →A few quick drawings done on my way into New York City via the PATH train. ©2012 Greg Betza
View post →A few thumbnails or quick drawings I did as I was working out how to illustrate a book jacket for a recent commission. The book is about the suppressed rage experienced by some members of Jewish communities. I’ll be posting the published book cover in the coming days. ~Despina
View post →Said the bird in the tree. Chalk and Pen. ~Despina
View post →They look so incredibly unnatural and fake, yet my son gravitated to them when I asked him to pick out a bouquet at the market today. Have any of you noticed these bouquets that are artificially colored and make you feel like you accidentally took a swig out of the Miracle Gro bottle? -Despina
View post →Strange name, and every song is about a love lost or a scorned lover or a broken heart or a girl named Carolyn. Or something along those lines. -DespinaÂ
View post →I couldn’t really tell if this woman had dozed off while reading her book… but I drew her anyway. -Despina
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